Students these days....or should I say everybody

Consider the following situtation a student sits in a classroom in the 9th or 10th grade and teacher quickly realizes that this student can not read? Or maybe a teacher realizes that for all intensive purposes that most of his/her class cannot read and she in all effects is wasting her time talking about some overly technical science phenomena. Why because the kids can't even read! What are you to do as a teacher of this class? A. Continue to teach science phenomena to students that couldnt pass a standardized test about the configuration of their own living quater or B. Teach them to read. You will find no sanity in teachin these little humans what E=MC squared means because they have no concept of the concept relevant to making this concept even remotely a conceptual concept in their concept less minds. So yes I say forget those freaking four letters of pain and studpidity thought of by a man who has no concept about the concept of school and would probably be one of the most conceptless teachers I have ever met considering I have seen him on tv on numerous occasision and I have never even until this day seen him discuss a novel concept to me. Yes NCLB No Child Left Behind, How about we actually do it pick these kids up and address their real issuess; subpar reading, writing and arithmetic skills. So my advice step back from the curriculum, because truth be told most of these students if they could really read the test, they would pass it, why because most of these joke End of cours test we give in this country are measures of a students ability to analyze not retain knowledge. Yep, I'm saying it teach the basics save your pain and frustration with these students not understanding some of these irrelevant standards and make sure that they can retain knowledge, make sure that they can apply what they have read. Ask, questions, and be prepared for the answer.....I can't read! So what do you do you tell your high schooler their life depends on it and you ride them everday of their life that you see them to fix their problem.......Don't give up in other words my colleagues, Don't give in, Don't let them fool you into believe that they can't learn and won't learn they just need someon you to forget about their shortcomings and focus on how to get them back into this game of life.